hutongs

In 1980, there were still 6,100 old streets, known as hutongs, but only a few hundred have been preserved, plus a handful of temples and courtyard houses.

'City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China' 2008

In recent years, two-thirds of Beijing's 3,000 narrow lanes, known as hutongs, have been subsumed by mega-developments, many of them in neighborhoods that were officially designated preservation zones.

NYT > Home Page 2010

Exploring the hutongs is a must as it is the backbone of Beijing and each hutong oozes history and stories.

TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

In recent years, two-thirds of Beijing's 3,000 narrow lanes, known as hutongs, have been subsumed by mega-developments, many of them in neighborhoods that were officially designated preservation zones.

NYT > Global Home 2010

It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices."

A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices."

A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

We all did the usual sightseeing -- we took a van out to the Great Wall, we walked around the Forbidden City and we took a pedicab tour of the byways and narrow alleyways of some of the "hutongs" that had survived Beijing's e headlong building boom.

Jim Calio: The Turkey Leg 2009

Over the last 20 years mile after mile of Beijing's "hutongs", or alleyways, have been bulldozed to make way for gleaming skyscrapers and apartment complexes as the city engages in a whole-scale, and at times brutal, program of modernisation.

Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China Danwei Picks 2010

Over the last 20 years mile after mile of Beijing's "hutongs", or alleyways, have been bulldozed to make way for gleaming skyscrapers and apartment complexes as the city engages in a whole-scale, and at times brutal, program of modernisation.

Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China Danwei Picks 2010

Over the last 20 years mile after mile of Beijing's "hutongs", or alleyways, have been bulldozed to make way for gleaming skyscrapers and apartment complexes as the city engages in a whole-scale, and at times brutal, program of modernisation.

Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China Danwei Picks 2010